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Peter Jones, que enseñó cultura clásica en Cambridge y enla Universidadde Newcastle, ha escrito algo así como una historia amena de Roma, desde su fundación hasta las invasiones bárbaras, en una sucesión de textos breves, a modo de viñetas, que nos hablan de los grandes personajes y de los acontecimientos fundamentales de la historia de la ciudad y del imperio, pero también de circunstancias anecdóticas que se refieren a unos y otros –los gansos del Capitolio, los elefantes de Aníbal, la riqueza de Craso, la construcción del Coliseo...- o de cuestiones que nos aproximan a la...

Tras un intento fallido en 1834, a principios de 1836 tres valles pirenaicos navarros (Aezkoa, Roncal y Salazar) y Valcarlos, en la línea de que el mejor modo de combatir a los carlistas era “contrarrevolucionar la Navarra contra la Navarra” y de que “el país debía pacificarse por el mismo país”, se pronunciaron con éxito contra los partidarios de don Carlos. Para ello se dotaron de juntas de armamento y defensa, movilizaron a más de dos millares de hombres bajo el mando de militares profesionales paisanos suyos y formaron la denominada “Confederación Liberal de la Montaña...

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High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...